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Bunches of ripe yellow and unripe green bananas stacked together outside a greengrocer shop in Honduras. Plate of spicy mofongo made with mashed plantains, garlic, and chicharron, topped with chunks of meat and served with broth, garnished with fresh herbs. Banana leaves Wild banana Banana plants Banana inflorescence Rows of banana plants on a plantation in Guadeloupe, with bunches of bananas covered in protective blue plastic bags. Cluster of ripe yellow Gros Michel bananas with dark tips on a branch. Large cluster of unripe green bananas, Musa acuminata Gros Michel, growing on a banana plant surrounded by broad green leaves. banana
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Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food
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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).
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Red and yellow cherry tomatoes, some forming a question mark, against a light blue background. (organic, fruits, vegetables)
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Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)
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Bananas
Bunches of yellow and green bananas outside a greengrocer shop.
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Mofongo
A mound of Puerto Rican mofongo, made of fried plantains, garlic and chicharrón (pork...
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Banana leaves
A person preparing tamales wrapped in banana leaves in Honduras.
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Wild banana
The unripened fruit from a wild banana tree (Musa).
Warut Roonguthai
Banana plants
Banana plants growing on a plantation. Each herbaceous trunk bears only one bunch...
© L. Shat/Fotolia
Banana inflorescence
A banana inflorescence in Thailand. Each purple-red bract curls, exposing the clusters...
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Banana plantation
A commercial banana plantation in Guadeloupe.
© Edoardo Nicolino/Dreamstime.com
Gros Michel banana
Once the dominant desert banana, the delicious Gros Michel was decimated by Panama...
© Soonthorn Wongsaita/Shutterstock.com
Bananas ripening
Large bunch of ripening bananas.
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banana
Domesticated bananas growing in a bunch.
Ingmar Holmasen
Unripe bananas
Cultivated plantain bananas (Musa species).
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Radioactive bananas?
Bananas are high in potassium, making them radioactive.
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